Nombre en español: Carpintero Pardo

Nombre cientifico: Dryobates fumigatus

Nombre en ingles: Smoky-brown Woodpecker

Familia: Picidae

Foto: Wilmer Quiceno

El carpintero café o carpintero ahumado (Leuconotopicus fumigatus) es una especie ave piciforme de la familia Picidae propia del Neotrópico, que se extiende desde el sur de México hasta Argentina.

Hasta hace poco se consideró dentro del género Veniliornis.

Subespecies

Tiene descritas las siguientes subespecies:

L. f. fumigatus Orbigny, 1840
L. f. obscuratus Chapman, 1927
L. f. oleagineus Reichenbach, 1854
L. f. reichenbachi Cabanis & Heine, 1863
L. f. sanguinolentus Sclater, PL, 1859

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuconotopicus_fumigatus

Smoky-brown woodpecker

The smoky-brown woodpecker or brown woodpecker (Leuconotopicus fumigatus) is a species of bird in the Picidae family.

It is found in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela.

Habitat

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and heavily degraded former forest. P. f. fumigatus is found mostly in the northern Amazon region. P. f. obscuratus is found from northwest Peru to northwest Argentina. P. f. oleagineus is found in eastern Mexico. V. f. reichenbachi is found in northern South America. And P. f. sanguinolentus is found throughout Central America

Description

Adult woodpeckers are 15–17 cm (5.9–6.7 in) in height and weigh about 31–50 g (1.1–1.8 oz). They are characteristically dark brown. The adult male has gray, red-tipped nape feathers and tawny scapular feathers. The adult female has brown-tipped nape feathers, and juvenile woodpeckers have noticeably duller feathers.

Behavior

The smoky-brown woodpecker seems to prefer smaller tree trunks to larger ones. Their diet favors small beetles and larvae.Leuconotopicus fumigatus often travels in pairs or in family groups, sometimes with other species. They nest from February to May, making their nest 1.5–7.6 m (4 ft 11 in–24 ft 11 in) off the forest floor. They have a clutch size of 4 eggs.